October 1994 Press and Photo releases

Press release STScI-PR94-40 discusses new insights into how starts might have formed many billions of years ago in the early universe. Photo release STScI-PRC94-40; This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image shows rich detail, previously only seen in neighboring star birth regions, in a pair of star clusters 166,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), in the southern constellation Doradus. Press release STScI-PR94-49 discusses the utilization of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to calculate the most accurate measurement of the distance of the remote galaxy M100. Photo release STScI-PRC94-49a; This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a region of the galaxy M100 show a class of pulsating start called a Cephid Variable. Photo release STScI-PRC94-49b; This sequence of images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope chronicles the rhythmic changes in a rare class of variable star (located in the center of each image) in the spiral galaxy M100. Photo release STScI-PRC94-49c; An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms.